Civil Military Role Should Be Clear Prior To Elections Stressed PM Abbassi
Civil Military Role Should Be Clear Prior To Elections Stressed PM Abbassi: Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has called for a national debate on the future civil-military relations, the role of the judiciary and other state institutions in the country.
Abbasi said the issue of civil-military ties would remain there irrespective of who formed the next government, besides the role of other stakeholders like the judiciary, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and the media.
There should be a national dialogue on what should be the role of the judiciary and NAB when the next government came to power, he said yesterday.
Presenting an overview of the PML-N government’s five-year performance ahead of elections on July 25, he said, “There should also be a national dialogue on civil-military relationship.”
The powerful military, which has ruled Pakistan for about half its history since independence in 1947, is considered a major player in the country’s politics.
He said countries could not be run like this and governments could not perform if there is a tussle between different state institutions.
“We have respected the vote with performance”, Abbasi, who became the prime minister after Sharif was disqualified by the Supreme Court last year, said.
He said the political instability had devastating impact on the country and the performance of the government.
He cited the 2014 sit-in, the Panama Papers case verdict and the Supreme Court’s judgment removing Sharif as a few events that hampered Pakistan’s progress.
Abbasi said that the PML-N has made significant improvement Pakistan’s economic conditions. By the end of the government’s tenure, the economic growth rate is high while inflation is low, he claimed.
He admitted that low exports and high imports remained a challenge for his government. The International Monetary Fund’s first post-program monitoring report shows Pakistan’s gross external debt in terms of exports was 193.2% in 2013, which is projected to deteriorate to an alarming 316% in June this year.
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